Stefan Jaeger

Dr. Stefan Jaeger is a staff scientist at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He received his diploma from the University of Kaiserslautern and his PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany, both in computer science. Dr. Jaeger has an international research background in academia as well as in industry. He has held research positions at Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Maryland, University of Karlsruhe, Daimler, and others. At NLM, he supervises research on deep machine learning and data science for diagnosing infectious diseases, and conducts research into image informatics and artificial intelligence for clinical care and education. His research interests include machine learning, biomedical image analysis, artificial intelligence, medical informatics, and theoretical medicine. He has more than hundred publications in these areas, several of which received best paper awards and nominations, including two patents.

Professional Activities:

Dr. Jaeger has acted as reviewer for national research councils and programs. He has served on the editorial boards of Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, Electronic Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases (China), and Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ELCVIA). He has also served as conference chair, keynote speaker, or program committee member for many conferences and workshops in his research area.